Syracuse, NY - Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, co-chair of the New York State Democratic Party, said the most stunning part of Republican Mitt Romney’s candid “47 percent” comment is when he said “my job is not to worry about those people.”

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what,” Romney said in the video. “There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.”

Miner said the public campaign message is just a softer version of the remarks Romney thought he was making privately.

That 47 percent, she said, includes seniors on Medicare, the poor on Medicaid.

“This idea that we shouldn’t be giving food to people. That they feel entitled to have food,” Miner said. “That is what that party believes in, but what they try to do is put a softer edge on it and a nicer face. That’s not what I believe in. That’s not what my president believes in and what our party believes in.”

The next president of the United States will have to represent people who voted for him or not, people who like him, or not, she said.

“When you take that office, it’s your sacred responsibility to represent everyone,” she said.

Romney’s campaign did not dispute the authenticity of the video, instead releasing a statement seeking to clarify his remarks, the Associated Press reported.

“Mitt Romney wants to help all Americans struggling in the Obama economy,” spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said. “He is concerned about the growing number of people who are dependent on the federal government.”